Under Prepaid Load Protection Act of 2014, telcos will not be allowed to impose an expiration period on the validity of unused prepaid call and text cards. Forfeiture of load credits stored on an active prepaid phone account via prepaid call and text card or electronic transfer will be also considered unlawful.

In addition, the act will also give a prepaid subscriber the right to demand a refund in the event that his load credits were forfeited without any valid cause.

Villar said that bills protecting consumers against unfair practices of telecommunications companies should be prioritized in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

“Every Filipino deserves protection as a consumer, and the passing of this bill allows each citizen to get the right value of their hard earned money,” Villar said.

i am fine with throttling as long as the monthly cap should be no less than 30gb roughly 1gb per day. who do the majority of the mobile data consumers have to suffer from the actions of those scum fucks torrenting and do heavy downloading on mobile data?

long overdue… crooked fucking telco’s forcing load expirations. people should have the right to spend their prepaid load however and whenever they want. i don’t even mind a one year expiry on regular loads. inactive sim cards, meaning sims with no incurred charges for x amount of months should be also deactivated and lose any remaining regular load to be fair with the telco’s too as they also spend money maintaining the active prepaid subscribers.

This house bill should also include the postpaid subscribers’ right. Postpaid subscribers already paid the plan in advance before they consume it. If ever the subscribers does not consume all his plan of the month, the remaining consumable balance should be credited to his next month billing cycle as an additional load to his plan.

immortal load might be too much. what happens for example to all the sim cards that are say stolen (along with the cellphone) then discarded. The phone company still has to keep the load alive and that probably uses up computer storage space and increases their overhead which they will pass to us users. One or 2 years after the last use might be enough